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 Topic: Is it possible to have aspergers and NOT be monotone:? |
nonneurotypical
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 Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 11:32 am Subject: Is it possible to have aspergers and NOT be monotone:? |
boynexdoor77,
I'm guessing you really mean you don't have a problem with what I believe is often referred to as "prosody" in the context of speech oddities among many on the autism spectrum. Spec ... |
| Topic: What's the chance that Adam Lanza was autistic? |
nonneurotypical
Replies: 59
Views: 4647
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 3:38 pm Subject: What's the chance that Adam Lanza was autistic? |
| If they ever release the toxicology results at least we can know if he was intoxicated in one way or another. |
| Topic: What's the chance that Adam Lanza was autistic? |
nonneurotypical
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Views: 4647
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 3:29 pm Subject: What's the chance that Adam Lanza was autistic? |
| ...The toxicology report may be more important in understanding this case than the medical history, per any potential diagnosis of a disorder, unless he was prescribed a legal prescription for an issu ... |
| Topic: "Informative" Documentaries and unwanted children |
nonneurotypical
Replies: 12
Views: 1065
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:49 pm Subject: "Informative" Documentaries and unwanted children |
| What is a "DVD?" ...Just kidding. Yes it is available on DVD for region 1 at least (North America). |
| Topic: "Informative" Documentaries and unwanted children |
nonneurotypical
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:18 am Subject: "Informative" Documentaries and unwanted children |
| I am loving "Loving Lampposts." I just watched it on Amazon.com. |
| Topic: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
nonneurotypical
Replies: 42
Views: 4926
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 1:36 pm Subject: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
This is one definition of Autist that struck me as ironic....
http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1696&context=wordways&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar ... |
| Topic: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
nonneurotypical
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Views: 4926
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 5:49 am Subject: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
Thank you Cornflake. My googling is casual. Your is methodical compared to mine. This is the sort of use I have seen:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WFWJ465QdD8C&lpg=PA157&ots=ajzkTmTz ... |
| Topic: word to replace nurotypical |
nonneurotypical
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:58 am Subject: word to replace nurotypical |
| I guess I like "neurotypical" myself. John Elder Robison has very overtly and intentionally used 'nypical" as a shortened form of the word in his latest book "Be Different". I can't say I'm very fon ... |
| Topic: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
nonneurotypical
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Views: 4926
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:49 am Subject: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
| I know there are idiosyncratic uses of the term "autist,", but I don't seem to find anything showing a formal use of the term. I know the basic Greek etomology of "autism" and I don't see a use of th ... |
| Topic: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
nonneurotypical
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 8:57 pm Subject: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
Autist is already used to describe autistic people.
Where have you seen it used and by whom?
I have read something that used the term once in passing as a novel term to refer indirectly to som ... |
| Topic: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
nonneurotypical
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 12:36 pm Subject: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
| I say we need not go far from home to coin a neologism for this purpose. There is a word that has been stuck in my brain for a while, which I suppose already has a bit of a meaning. However, the wor ... |
| Topic: Girl Who Commited Sex Attacks |
nonneurotypical
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Views: 1209
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 6:19 pm Subject: Girl Who Commited Sex Attacks |
| It is amazing if it is true that someone with AS not only managed to get into not just one relationship, but two while pretending to be three different people. That is certainly something I could nev ... |
| Topic: Young Man Denied Heart Transplant Because He's Autistic |
nonneurotypical
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 11:19 am Subject: Young Man Denied Heart Transplant Because He's Autistic |
Paul Corby has now made it into the lead stories on cbsnews.com as of today here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57495173/mom-presses-for-heart-transplant-for-autistic-adult-son/ |
| Topic: Young Man Denied Heart Transplant Because He's Autistic |
nonneurotypical
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:55 pm Subject: Young Man Denied Heart Transplant Because He's Autistic |
This story has been picked up by the Philadelphia Inquirer and ABC News. Read the story on philly.com here:
http://articles.philly.com/2012-08-14/news/33201606_1_susan-brozena-transplant-evaluation-h ... |
| Topic: Can't read emotions = Aspergers? |
nonneurotypical
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Views: 1206
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:16 am Subject: Can't read emotions = Aspergers? |
| According to Simon Baron-Cohen (and others) impaired empathy is associated with several conditions and Asperger syndrome is one of them. If I remember correctly, Autism/Asperger syndrome was the only ... |
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